Combined necktie-holder and collar-button



No. 6|6,876. Patented Jan. 3, I899. W. B. AUSTIN &. W. N. DRAW.

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WVILLIS R. AUSTIN AND \VILLIAM N. CRAXV, OF SOUTH NORVVALK,

CONNECTICUT;

COMBINED NECKTlE-HOLDER AND COLLAR-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,876, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed January 6, 1898. Serial No. 665,744. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, \VILLIS R. AUSTIN and TILLIAM N. CRAW, citizens of the United States, residing at South Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Necktie-Holder and Collar-Button and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention has for its object to produce a combined necktie-holder and collar-button made without hinges, which shall be so constructed as to adapt it to shirts opening either at the front or the back, which will hold in place either a string tie or the neckband of a scarf, may be readily inserted and removed, will not turn in the buttonhole, and which shall be provided with an inner curved plate, so as to prevent the possibility of discomfort to the wearer.

lVe are of course well aware that various styles of collar-buttons have been devised for holding a tie or neckband in place on a collar. These various styles of collar-buttons, so far as weare aware, have all been open to objection owing to inherent defects in construction, which has been especially true with reference to the type of buttons known as lever-buttons, in which an' arm or hook has been hinged to the back of the button proper.

In order to overcome the various objections which have heretofore been found to tie-holding collar-buttons and to provide a simple and inexpensive button made in a single piece, which will be comfortable to wear under all circumstances and will hold theflaps of a shirt, a collar, and a necktie or scarf securely in place, we have devised the novel collar-button which we will now describe and then specifically define in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view of the outer side of the back of a collar, showing in elevation the outer end of the hook of our novel collar-button, the necktie or scarfband being removed; Fig. 2, asection on the line a: at in Fig. 1, a necktie or scarf-band also appearing in the view; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of our collar-button detached. Fig. 4 is a section on the line a; or of Fig. 3, looking upward.

A denotes the flaps of a shirt, and G a colthe usual buttonholes, through which the shank of the hook passes, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

D denotes our novel combined necktieholder and collar-button as a whole. This button comprises a curved neck-plate 1, a flattened shank 2, extending outward therefrom, and a flattened hook 3, which curves upward and outward from the shank and then downward, forming a recess 4:, which is adapted to receive a scarf-tie or neckband, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The tip of the hook, which we have indicated by 5,is curved inward and then outward slightly to adapt the hook to be conveniently passed through the buttonholes of theshirt-flaps and collar and to permit the necktie to be readily passed under the hook, the inwardly-curved part forming a clamp to hold the scarf-tie or neckband in lar, said flaps and collar being provided with place, and said inwardly-curved portion also acting tohold the collar in position where no necktie or scarf-band is used. The flattened shank 2, which extends outward from the neck-plate 1, is contracted near its point of juncture with the-said neck-plate, so as to form recesses in the edges of the shank,which recesses receive and hold the ends of the buttonholes in the collar-flaps of a shirt. This contracted portion of the shank also serves to more readily keep the collar in place, for the reason that the buttonhole of the collar will be engaged by the said contracted portion or the side recesses in the shank. Since the upwardly-curved portion of the flattened hook 3 is wider than that portion of the shank which is adjacent to the neck-plate, the said wider portion acts as a button to prevent the accidental removal of the collar or unbuttoning of the shirt-collar flaps A.

The essential features of our novel co1larbutton are the curved neck-plate and the flat tened hook and shank formed integral therewith.

Our novel combined necktie-holder and collar-button may be made of metal, celluloid, or any suitable material.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- 1. A combined necktie-holder and collarbutton comprising a curved neck-plate, a flattened shank extending outward from the edge thereof, and a flattened hook curved upward and then downward to form a recess to receive and hold the necktie-band.

2. A combined necktie-holder and collarbutton comprising a curved neck-plate, aflattened shank extending outward from the edge thereof, and a flattened hook curved upward and then downward and inward,tl1e tip therelVitnesses:

J ACOB M. LAYTON, WILFRED BoDWELL. 

